YILDIZ TECHNICAL

UNIVERSITY
Differential Equations

Doç. Dr. Yonca TURGUT SEZER

ysezer@yildiz.edu.tr
 DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS MAT2411

Weekly Subjects:
Week Subjects
Classification of Differential Equations,
Order and Degree of Differential Equations,
Solutions of Differential Equations: The General Solution, Particular Solution,
1
Singular Solution
Initial and Boundary Value Problems
Obtaining a Differential Equation by the General Solution
First order Differential Equations:
Separable Differential Equations,
Differential Equations that can be transformed into Separable Differential Equations
2
Homogeneous Differential Equations,
Differential Equations that can be transformed into Separable or homogeneous Differential
Equations
Exact Differential Equations, First Order Linear Differential Equations, Method of
3
Integrating Factors, Method of Variation Parameters.
4 Bernoulli Differential Equations, Riccati Differential Equations.
5 First-Order Higher-Order Differential Equations: Clairaut and Lagrange's Equations.
General Theory of Linear Differential Equations:
Higher Order Linear Homogeneous Equations, Wronskian Determinant
6 Homogeneous Linear Equations with Constant Coefficients,
The Characteristic Equation, Distinct Real Roots, Repeated Real Roots Conjugate
Complex Roots
Nonhomogeneous Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients
7
The Method of Undetermined Coefficients
The Method of Variation of Parameters(Lagrange Method)
8
Higher Order Linear DE with Variable Coefficients: Cauchy Euler Differential Equation
9 Midterm
Second Order Differential Equations that do not contain Either Dependent or Independent
10
Variable.
Series Solutions of Second Order Linear Equations: Review of Power Series, Series
11
Solutions Near an Ordinary Point.
12 The Laplace Transform: Definition of Laplace Transform and properties.
The Inverse Laplace Transform, The Solution of Linear Dif. Equations with Constant
13
Coefficients by Laplace Transformation
Systems of First Order Linear Differential Equations: Elimination Method, The
14
Determinant Method.
Textbook:
Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems.

William E. Boyce and Richard C.DiPrima, Eighth Edition, 2005, U.S.A.

Lecture Notes:

https://avesis.yildiz.edu.tr/ysezer/dokumanlar password: diffgroup5052

Google Classroom Class Code: r77fhoy

The Definition and Classification of Differential Equations:

The subject of differential equations is an important part of applied mathematics.

Many real life problems can be formulated as differential equations:

Many principles or laws underlying the behaviour of the natural world are statements
or relations involving rates at which things happen. When expressed in mathematical
terms, relations are equations and the rates are derivatives. Equations containing
derivatives are differential equations.

Therefore, to understand and to investigate problems involving the motion of fluids,

the flow of current in electric circuits, the dissipation of heat in solid objects, the
propagation and detection of seismic waves, or the increase or decrease of
populations, among many others, it is necessary to know something about differential
equations.

A differential equation that describes some physical process is often called a

mathematical model of the process.

For example,
𝑑𝑥 𝑥
Modelling of growth of tumours: = 𝑟 (1 − ) 𝑥 , 𝑥(𝑡) = size of the tumor at the t
𝑑𝑡 𝑘

𝜕2 𝑢(𝑥,𝑡) 𝜕2 𝑢(𝑥,𝑡)
Wave equation: 𝑎2 =
𝜕𝑥 2 𝜕𝑡 2